Research Information System
Journal of Education and Practice, vol.7, no.34, pp.34-45, 2016 (Refereed Journals of Other Institutions)
It was aimed in this study to reveal the general tendency of studies in the field of education by examining the
papers in the high-impact A-class SSCI journals, to which qualified papers are accepted from all round the world,
in terms of their dependent-independent variables, sample or study groups, research designs, data collection
instruments, and data analysis techniques. The descriptive survey model was used in the research. The population
of the research was all the journals surveyed in the field of educational sciences by SSCI. The journals and papers
examined were selected with the purposive sampling method. 169 papers from six journals were subjected to
examination within the scope of the research. Descriptive analysis and content analysis methods were used for
analyzing the data. It was consequently seen that the papers used dependent variable of “student” the most which
was followed by “teacher.” The most studied variable along with “student” was “academic performance.” It was
found that a quite large number of dependent variables were used in the papers examined. It can be understood
that studies on students among all study groups occupied the largest place, which was followed by teachers. It was
seen that quantitative data analyses and experimental research studies was addressed more in the papers. Several
documents and tests were mostly preferred as data collection instruments. It was noticed that the most used data
analysis method was the regression analysis. Finally, some recommendations were developed in accordance with
the research results